Word: resister
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...doesn't have fantasies of at least accepting prizes. But if you have accepting prizes in your head, you can't get to the business at hand. The ambition behind work should get purer. In the beginning there is the drive to be recognized. But if you can resist the whole success business you can really realize what you want...
...Seas held in Caracas and the World Population Conference in Bucharest-degenerated into forums for political posturing and adjourned without taking any significant action. For the Rome conference to accomplish more than the others, the so-called less developed countries (L.D.C.s) will have to resist the temptation to blame the world's ills on the former colonial powers...
...more hilarious than this British mini-novel. The action involves the appointment of a feckless liberal politician as head of the ultra-conservative Porterhouse College at Cambridge University. When he proposes some changes-enrollment of women in the all-male college, for example-the faculty and staff staunchly resist...
...measure the Pope's valedictory against their frank, sometimes adventurous discussions. The gap between the two showed both the limitations and the strengths of the synod. Those who were optimistic-and many were-cited the free exchange of ideas; those who were pessimistic felt that the Pope would resist even some necessary changes...
...body by the malignant cells. Untreated breast tumors can metastasize, or spread, rapidly-invading the lungs, skeleton, liver or brain. The spreading cancer can also kill by interfering with the production of substances the body needs for normal functioning, thus weakening the victim and leaving her unable to resist infectious disease...